Futuresource Ed Tech Voice - Audio Visual Devices

This classroom audio visual devices report is based on interviews with school IT decision makers in the USA. The respondents represent all 50 states, grouped by East Coast, West Coast and Central states.

Understanding the current adoption levels of technology tools for the classroom, along with planned investment, is often challenging. This is due to the large number of vendors and the different solutions offered to schools. In addition, the decision-makers and influencers often operate at district level, so CTOs and CIOs do not have the same level of influence typical of other industries.

This report focuses on the current and projected ownership of classroom audio solutions, audio visual devices and voice amplification systems for the classroom, as well as the key priorities and obstacles faced.

This education technology report is one in a series of four from Futuresource, with the other three covering:

  •  Client Device Computing
  •  Classroom Tools
  •  Administration Tools

 

Over 2021 to 2023, with Federal funding available in the USA, there was a surge in demand for visual displays in teaching spaces, in part to provide a remote/hybrid teaching environment, if necessary. This also gave some schools the opportunity to churn IWB (Interactive Whiteboards) for IFPD (LCD Interactive Flat Panel Displays), or, in some cases, to replace IWBs, or the Interactive Projectors coupled with IWBs. There are also some schools that, mainly for budgetary reasons, are using [nontouch] Flat Panel Professional Displays (FPD) or non-interactive Projectors.

With some schools having first, or second generation IFPDs that are in need of replacement, and with over 1 million IWBs still in use in K-12 in the USA, there are significant replenishment/replacement opportunities moving forwards. However, this Federal funding has now all been spent and school districts in the USA are returning to their pre-COVID model of funding via local taxes, sometimes supplemented by fundraising and parental contributions. Consequently, it is possible that we will see some schools keep incumbent IFPDs or IWBs for longer than ideally planned for, maybe opting to replace Interactive Projectors in use with an IWB, rather than trading up from an IWB to an IFPD.

  •  Comprehensive PDF report
  •  Executive summary
  •  Audio visual devices overview
  •  Audio visual devices penetration
  •  Audio visual devices spend
  •  Audio visual devices usage, brands and priorities
  •  Audio visual devices procurement
  • Feedback on the current usage of EdTech in schools and planned investment in classroom AV and classroom audio systems
  • Insights into which factors are most important to schools when investing in classroom audio visual systems and their planned future purchases
  • Barriers to investment are also explored, as well as key methods of procurement
  • EdTech market analysis
  • EdTech market size

Futuresource has been tracking, researching and consulting on the global education technology market for more than 20 years. However, since 2020, the pandemic has placed a spotlight on EdTech and the role it has played in keeping children educated, and Futuresource’s reporting has been ramped up accordingly. This publication is one in a series of highly granular research reports, produced to provide businesses with an holistic view of the market.

 


Any enterprise operating within the EdTech sector will benefit from this report, particularly:

  •  Manufacturers and their suppliers
  •  Resellers and VARs
  •  Intermediaries and supply chain
  •  EdTech market strategists, marketing and sales professionals
  •  Investors

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